How Cultists trick man from home, hack him to death in Lagos

Some suspected cult members in the Mushin area of Lagos State have hacked a man identified as Tunde, aka Eleto, to death.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the
victim was tricked from his house on Market Street, Oyingbo, to Kadiri
Street, Mushin, where some suspected cult members dragged him to where
he was killed.

He was said to have been shot dead and dismembered by his assailants on Tuesday.

Our correspondent gathered that Tunde’s corpse was dragged through the street to a canal around the railway line.

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However, a resident, who claimed to have witnessed the killing, said Tunde was hacked to death around 10pm on the fateful day.

He said,

“The men were seven in number. They held him by the trousers and took
him to the street as he begged them to spare him.They stabbed him in the
face and chest, as his pleas fell on deaf ears.As they were about
leaving, one of them
said he was not sure the man was dead, so they went back and
dismembered him. They also shot at him to be sure that he died.”

Another resident, who spoke on condition
of anonymity, said he heard a gunshot in the night, and never knew what
had happened until the following morning.

“I was indoors when I heard a gunshot
that night. Nobody knew where it came from and what was happening. But
by the following morning, we woke up to see the man’s body dismembered.
We had to quickly alert the police,” he said.

PUNCH Metro was told that policemen from the Alakara Police Division deposited the corpse in a mortuary.

A source explained to our correspondent that Tunde was killed by his friends, who harboured animosity against him.

He said Tunde and the suspects once
lived together on Market Street, before they (the suspects) were forced
to relocate to Mushin.

He said,

“The feeling was that Tunde masterminded their ordeal. One of their leaders, Itakun, invited him for a meeting on that day and he foolishly went there, without knowing what he was up against.